Honoré Boze was a French Orientalist painter, born in Mauritius on April 19, 1830, and died in Marseille on January 5, 1909 (aged 78). Grand-nephew of the painter Joseph Boze, Honoré Boze was born in Mauritius to a Provençal father and a beautiful Hindu mother. His father, a ship's captain and merchant on Mauritius, who later became the Orléanist mayor of Martigues and General Councillor of Bouches-du-Rhône, was forced to leave Provence, and took him to Paris, where he visited exhibitions and Salons. He fell in love with the oriental paintings of Eugène Fromentin.

He then returned to Provence with his father. He enrolled as a student at the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, where he studied under the director Émile Loubon.

He married a widow with property in Oran. This enabled him to make trips to Algeria, where he found numerous subjects for his paintings. He was elected to the Académie de Marseille in 1900.